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Re: Keywords
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- Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: Keywords
- From: Norman Walsh <ndw at nwalsh dot com>
- Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2000 20:07:05 -0400
- References: <E13eDaL-0006jZ-00@duck.doc.ic.ac.uk>
/ Ian Moor <iwm@doc.ic.ac.uk> was heard to say:
| >I am trying to mark-up a document that is about a computer language.
|
| I have wondered about language keywords, for example in chapter 2 of the
| definitive guide "the most frequently used keywords are PUBLIC, SYSTEM, ..."
| However the docbook element keyword is meant for describing a document.
| The nearest element seems to be token.
Yes, "keyword" describes the metadata that is a keyword, not computer
language keywords. I'd likely use <literal>, <symbol>, or <token> with
a role attribute.
Be seeing you,
norm
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